There has always been a delicate balance in our house between the desire to live simply, as in "the good life", and Col's hobby/career as an electronics design engineer. At the moment that means I can come in on a Saturday evening after putting the hens & the veggies to bed, pour a glass of wine, click on the appropriate icon on any pc or laptop and the old farmhouse fills with the sound of random album tracks from the playlist we put together for my 60th birthday a couple of years ago. Here it is, it probably says a lot about us and how old we are......what is, or what would be, on your playlist??

NIce idea for a topic - beats knitting patterns and Rosie Thomas novels. I will make a list of my cd's and records and tapes. and inflict it upon you. It will keep me amused, and pander to my recently self diagnosed OCD, though as Captain Oates said once - "I may be some time". At a quick look, I have got about three on your list.
I'm fighting off the temptation to buy a Brennan JB7 - as advertised in Private Eye, whih removes the need to actually own CD's, but they are a bit expensive.
By the way it would have been Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday today, which will indicate the sort of stuff you are in for.

Wendy, I recognise Dylan and 'Rumours' is one of my favourite albums. As for a play-list, I listen to anything from the Late Quartets to heavy metal swinging off into trucking songs on the way. If I have a favourite it is probably requiems, some symphonies, choral music and anything played loud on a baroque organ! E Power Biggs was a far better organist than he is credited! Jeanne Demessiex on the organ in Beverly Minster is somewhere close to heaven.

Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!

I shall look forward to seeing your list Tripps. The technology in our house is a mystery to me, (which seriously annoys my husband, who attempts to teach me about it from time to time) but all those albums are now on computer so I dont have to bother with finding one and sticking it in the player. We have a shelf full of old & scratched LP's to digitise when there is nothing to do one winter.
Perhaps you will choose the next novel for the book club?

Here's part two. I bet you wish you hadn't asked. Actually I'm really enjoying this. Looking at and dusting down discs that have literally been on a shelf for years.
That's about half now, but I'll give it a rest. Getting a bit worried - I haven't found my Gillian Welch collection yet.

** Bought at The Clog and Folk festival at Oswaldtwistle - May 2000. Pierre (French Canadian), was billed as the "World champion fiddler". Upstairs at Lock Street Catholic club. I couldn't resist it. The Appalachian clog dancing workshop on the Sunday was memorable.

That's quite a list Tripps! Nothing like a musical trip down memory lane is there.
You have some pretty up to date stuff there Nolic. We seem to be stuck in the past. Col has some Elbow & Richard Hawley, but neither do anything for me. I love having random tracks playing, you never know what is coming next.

Wendy, if you think you are stuck in the past I must be an eccentric dinosaur!
I started typing a list in on the topic but hit the wrong key somewhere along the line and lst half an hour!
So here it is again, a list of vinyl I can no longer play. All in good nick and if anyone wants them they are welcome to them. (If they had time to transfer to CD while they were playing them that would be nice!)
I shall try again but this time on OO Writer so I don't lose them!

Calluna started a thread on the old site on transferring audio from vinyl to computer when she went afloat. I had a go of course, and got Audacity, and a gadget, but it wasn't a great success. Then along came Spotify, and rendered it all virtually redundant.

Spotify tracks do not always come from the original source. Some CD and album tracks are from later recordings and re-recordings or maybe from USA releases which for some older titles are a bit different to UK ones. Some the vynal I had in my collection is still not on Spotify.

The Steam Locomotives one is of interest , I assume its one of the Argo Transacord series . These were used by Steam World I think to provide audio track to a number of otherwise silent 16mm and 8mm film for their DVD releases a few years back. I donated a bit of vynal and a few CDs I got given a while back to Oxfam in Skipton (figured they would have more passing trade than Pendle Hospice in Barnoldswick ) - then I got given some Baroque Music CDs that I sent down to Pendle Hospice shop in Colne (the parking was easier!), I think they sell them for a pound or two.

I tend to search youtube for my diminishing vynal records to bring up suggestions that they have , there are some good non-uk sourced performance versions of the 1960s pop tracks.

Wendy, you're right. Three young daughters has a strange effect on musical tastes (and mine on them of course). I was once given a bunch of old Lear Jet endless play cartridges when they became obsolete and found a couple of players, one for the wagon cab and one for the house. Brilliant as far as the kids were concerned, all they had to do was shove them in and they played over and over again. Mostly classical and some shows. They got hooked on Jesus Christ Superstar amongst others.
Ray, I have lots more including 'Night on Bare Mountain' on cassette but too many of them to list.
Steam over Shap details: From Sounds of the Steam Age series by ASV Transacord. ATR 7035 (some still available LINK)
[You lot wasted some time for me! I found another site 'steam sounds' and couldn't resist listening to some of them!]

Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net

"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!

We have a few snaps Nolic. Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, Willie Nelson, Springstein. All these have been in my car recently. I also have a large selection of country artists on tape that were bought in Saudi for pennies and one day I will transfer to CD.

I used to have a great selection of 7" and 12" singles from the late-70s/early-80s which, to cut a long story short, I lost. The good thing is that I have begun to build this up again through i-Tunes and so have at the moment a 'playlist' that includes:

Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination/Empire and Dance
Human League - Reproduction
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex
The Slits - The Slits
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures/Closer
The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials (and loads more)
China Crisis - Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms (Some People Think it's Fun to Entertain) - prize for the most pretentious album title!
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Plus tracks from The Blue Orchids; The Pop Group; The Associates; Orange Juice; Wah! Heat; The Teardrop Explodes and many many more

And in addition to this post-Punk/New wave stuff I have a lot of early Genesis; Pink Floyd, Roxy Music plus Brian Eno stuff. Melanie Zafka, Buffy Saint-Marie and Simon and Garfunkle. Plus lots of The Kinks and the Small Faces, and The Who. Led Zepellin and The Yardbirds. Van Morrison. Oh, and The Beatles.....

And more recent stuff by the likes of The Coral, The Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Adele. And my guilty secret: The Best of Girls Aloud - I was listening to this whilst waiting to cross Blackfriars Road in London the other year and realised I was dancing!